The jobs that time forgot

#1 Closing off the corridor

Working backwards – unravelling the tale of the 1:12 window

This sliding wall has a stop (unless you force it) so it stays in place. It has a round edged normal sized moulding as a ‘handle’ running down the outer edge to assist sliding.

It’s been made to match in with the next door slider in the large, public sitting room

It has cardboard astragals and all the usual types of trim I tend to use. A mix of 1:12 and 1:24 beading, picture framing and home-made bits and bobs created from balsa and anaglypta. The item over the window is a clock resin moulding. (see below for link to seller)

The window, originally a double door/half glazed French window, has been taken apart (including the inner depth woodwork) and rebuilt with the panels the other way up and only one side of the inner depth kept. That’s being used to stop the slider falling out.

Most of the items listed in the captions are from the usual mix of suppliers, but the clock moulding is from Old and New Times.

For the rest of the back story here are some links re the making and decorating of the corridor and the building up of our Polonius figure hovering therein.

• Trying to hide a room
• The bruising qualities of balsa
• Threading the beads of the tale
• A man of many parts

Feeling virtuous, having sorted one of the undone jobs, am considering moving on to the next!  I’ll let you know how I get on – assuming I do – get on, that is.

A man of many parts

Guild Master

Corridor inhabitant
– misinterpretations of intent

Same posture a little change in setting

A pleasant looking fellow

who enjoys singing and worrying the dog

spouting lines from Shakespeare’s sonnets in the street

Unfortunately also given to eavesdropping

and generally skulking in corridors

 

Threading the beads of the tale

A figure day

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This man is no longer in his office (going or coming, I don’t know) just when the cat and the dog are ganging up on the rat (see previous posting).  Oops.

Wanting to smooth the connections between the different scenes, I’ve been trying out the figure in the corridor.  I took shots from every angle to see whether he worked out or not and thought I could share them.

Seems to link most of the visible areas with the possible exception of James down in the clerk’s office, but then he’s busy with the guy seated in the entrance porch with his baggage and the possible fight outside.  The private dining room, downstairs left, is doing its own thing, but it does house another cat and dog possible alliance, this time over a meat pie, so let’s call that a link for the moment.

 

 

The room of two parts

Before the ceiling is sealed in

I left off last time with a decision about the setting for the room:  no people, plenty of animals.  Today it’s just coming together ready for the adding of the ceiling, so certain photo shots will soon be impossible.  Here’s a taste of what there is before it disappears.

From above – the main house is on the right, finishing at the balustrade and step down. A part of the left hand section slides under the right to dock the two.

On the far wall there’s a new hanging (computer print iron on transfer on muslin)

and on the other side there’s another with, for some reason a small window in it

Back on the level

As we were with a few additions and alterations – photo taken with camera parked at the join of the two halves

Through the window to the join and step

and the right hand side of the join

You can see the floor disappearing under the balustrade/step overhang.

Alterations

Uh, says the cat. Spot the difference?

Not so much a mouse … Changed to match the little critters downstairs under the boy in the window

and additions

A little sewing handiwork left on stool

and the sewing kit roll on window cill too

The ceiling pieces and the A frame to match the gable wall are all cut, sized and ready and it’s about time I found out whether all the pieces really do fit or if it’s the ever lovely wishful thinking and my steamed up spectacles.